Alice Dearing: redemption in the water for Team GB's first Black female Olympic swimmer

By Jack Bantock and Louis Leeson, CNN

Updated 0858 GMT (1658 HKT) July 27, 2022

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(CNN)Last summer, Alice Dearing made history.

Competing in the women's 10km marathon swim at the Tokyo Olympics in August 2021, the 24-year-old became the first Black female swimmer to represent Team GB at an Olympic Games.Only two Black swimmers had represented Britain at the Games before Dearing: Kevin Burns swam at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal and Paul Marshall won bronze in Moscow four years later.«It's something I never thought I would be or would achieve,» Dearing told CNN